* Big deal: Duff & Phelps going private
* Josh Miller: 10th grade tech trends
* Fiscal cliff: This is how much your taxes will rise
* Bruce Livesly: The king of reverse-merger failures
* Michael Gaiss: 7 new VC initiatives worth watching
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares dip and the Nikkei climbs
* Picture time: The year’s most powerful photos
* Cate Long: Time to ban UBS from doing biz in the U.S.
* Michael Pettis: China’s massive over-investment problem
* Fisker & more: 15 largest VC funding rounds of 2012
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* Sayonara: Zynga shutters Japanese operations. Oh, and kills 11 games.
* Even rivalries have limits: BNP red-faced over Hitler/Deutche Bank parody
* This came out 2 weeks ago, but since I wasn’t around… First Round Capital’s holiday video:
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